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National State-by-State Ranking of Hospital Safety Score
June 22, 2012
Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont boast the largest percentage of A hospitals in the United States. Rhode Island, Missouri and Oregon feature the lowest percentage of A hospitals.
Hospitals Receive A, B, C, D or F Scores for Patient Safety
June 6, 2012
Infections, Medication and Medical Errors, and Injuries Still Rampant, but Some Hospitals Are Safer Than Others
URAC & The Leapfrog Group present the Excellence in Hospital Website Transparency Awards Program
May 11, 2012
URAC and The Leapfrog Group have partnered to develop the Excellence in Hospital Website Transparency Best Practices Awards and Acknowledgement Program to identify outstanding hospital websites that promote transparency of quality measures in a manner that is useful and user-friendly for consumers.
Lack of Testing and Monitoring of Health IT by Hospitals and Vendors Potentially Jeopardizes Patients: Hospital Performance Is Improving, but More Must Be Done
April 30, 2012
The potential for computerized medication prescribing systems to inadvertently result in harm to patients remains a major challenge for hospitals and technology companies.
Webinar on Early Elective Deliveries for Purchasers and Health Care Professionals
March 12, 2012
Slides and audio recordings are now available from Leapfrog's recent webinar series on Early Elective Deliveries.
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